I have KVM installed and working on my Debian 7.1 host with two Debian 7.1 guests and some Windows XP guests. When I shutdown using the command 'virsh shutdown ' or hitting the shutdown button in virt-manager the Debian guests go into pmsuspended state.

The only way I can properly shutdown is to ssh into those guests and type the 'shutdown -h now' command.

#!/bin/sh
# This script initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
# pressed. Loosely based on the sample that ships with the acpid package.
# If the acpid sample is present as a real config file (as it was in earlier
# versions of acpid), we skip this script. (Purging and reinstalling acpid
# resolves this situation, or simply deleting /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn.)
if [ -f /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn -o -f /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn.dpkg-bak ] ; then
logger Acpi-support not handling power button, acpid handler exists at /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn or /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn.dpkg-bak.
exit 0
fi
[ -e /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs ] || exit 0
. /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs
if CheckPolicy; then
exit 0
fi
if [ -x /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh ] ; then
# Compatibility with old config script from acpid package
/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
elif [ -x /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh.dpkg-bak ] ; then
# Compatibility with old config script from acpid package
# which is still around because it was changed by the admin
/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh.dpkg-bak
else
# Normal handling.
/sbin/shutdown -h -P now "Power button pressed"
fi

Update

Installed a new Debian guest VM last week and it doesn't have the shutdown problem. The Debian VMs which do have the problem were moved from VirtualBox to KVM and are older installations of Debian 7.

1 Answer
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I had the same problem on an old vmware image which I converted to libvirt/KVM. It has survived many Debian version upgrades. I tried all the usual, check that acpi was enabled in the guest and created event scripts in /etc/acpi/events. Nothing worked. Finally i purged the package.

aptitude purge acpid

then I also deleted the remaining scripts I created my self. Then I did a fresh packet install

aptitude install acpid

What could be seen during install was:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
acpi-support-base{a} acpid consolekit{a} libck-connector0{a} libpam-ck-connector{a} libpolkit-gobject-1-0{a}